Within the large dabbling duck genus Anas, the Northern Pintail's closest relatives are other pintails, such as the Yellow-billed Pintail ( A. georgica ) and Eaton's Pintail ( A. eatoni ).

The Northern Pintail's breeding habitat is open unwooded wetlands, such as wet grassland, lakesides or tundra.

but many historians maintain that except for Northern meddling it would have ended in states like Virginia years before it did.

In many Northern towns and cities meetings were held and church bells were tolled.

The Troth takes the " universalist " position, claiming Asatru as a synonym for " Northern European Heathenry " taken to comprise " many variations, names, and practices, including Theodism, Irminism, Odinism, and Anglo-Saxon Heathenry ".

Ayahuasca is known by many names throughout Northern South America and Brazil.

The real percentage of foreign residents is higher, since the Alicante metropolitan area is home to many Northern European retirees who are officially still residents of their own countries.

Caithness, Sutherland and the Northern Isles have the densest concentrations, but there are also a great many examples in the west of Scotland and the Hebrides.

The common law constitutes the basis of the legal systems of: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, federal law in the United States and the law of individual U. S. states ( except Louisiana ), federal law throughout Canada and the law of the individual provinces and territories ( except Quebec ), Australia ( both federal and individual states ), Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Pakistan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Granadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and many other generally English-speaking countries or Commonwealth countries ( except Scotland, which is bijuridicial, and Malta ).

It is globally popular and an essential flavouring in many cuisines, particularly South Asian, Northern African and Latin American cuisines.

The activity is popular in many places with large snowfields, primarily Northern Europe, Canada, and Alaska.

Canis lupus has 39 subspecies currently described, including two subspecies of domestic dog, Canis lupus dingo and Canis lupus familiaris, and many subspecies of wolf throughout the Northern hemisphere.

During the First World War, he and his wife performed many services for the public of Leicestershire, including opening up their home first as a VAD Hospital under the 5th Northern General Hospital, and later as a hospital for Naval Personnel.

Northern Russian with its ancient variation, Old Novgorod dialect, has many original and archaic features.

The Normans, a Viking people who settled in Northern France and founded the Duchy of Normandy would have a significant impact on many parts of Europe, from the Norman conquest of England to Southern Italy and Sicily.

Winter in the Northern Hemisphere features many holidays that involve festivals and feasts.

From the late 20th century onward, Irish identity abroad became increasingly cultural, non-denominational, and non-political, although many emigrants from Northern Ireland stood apart from this trend.

As 26 of these traditional counties are located in the Republic of Ireland, many people, particularly Irish nationalists, refer to that state as " the 26 Counties " and to Northern Ireland as " the Six Counties ".

He was found seven days later on December 2, 2001, when Northern Alliance forces diverted an irrigation stream into the middle of the camp in an attempt to flush the remaining prisoners out of their underground shelters, drowning many in the process.

Northern and western Mongolia are seismically active zones, with frequent earthquakes and many hot springs and extinct volcanoes.

May Day on May 1 is an ancient Northern Hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday ; it is also a traditional spring holiday in many cultures.

As many as 2, 000 Taliban fighters who surrendered were reportedly massacred by the Northern Alliance after the battle, and reports also place U. S. ground troops at the scene of the massacre.

It is the start of the academic year in many countries in the Northern Hemisphere.

He is widely credited with uniting many of the Northern Nguni people, specifically the Mtetwa Paramountcy and the Ndwandwe into the Zulu Kingdom, the beginnings of a nation that held sway over the portion of southern Africa between the Phongolo and Mzimkhulu Rivers, and his statesmanship and vigour marked him as one of the greatest Zulu kings.

Sticky rice, not jasmine rice, is the staple food in the local cuisines of Northern Thailand and of Isan ( Northeastern Thailand ), both regions of Thailand directly adjacent to Laos with which they share this, and many other cultural traits.

Particularly hardest hit by economic problems were the north of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales ; unemployment reached 70 % in some areas at the start of the 1930s ( with more than 3 million out of work nationally ) and many families depended entirely on payments from local government known as the dole.

The total area of the United Kingdom is approximately, comprising the island of Great Britain, the northeastern one-sixth of the island of Ireland ( Northern Ireland ) and many smaller islands.

Other vendors of compatible telephone equipment called the Touch-Tone feature Tone dialing or DTMF, or used their own registered trade names such as the Digitone of Northern Electric ( now known as Nortel Networks ).

All of these are believed to be Canaanite names, and at least two are Phoenician ( Northern Canaanite ).

The two states also settled the long-running dispute concerning their respective names: Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with both governments agreeing to use those names.

The term ' shire ' is not used in the names of the six traditional counties of Northern Ireland.

Northern Belgic tribes like the Nervians, Atrebates or Morini appear to be Germanic tribes who migrated from the Germanic hinterland and adopted Celtic language and customs, as all of the names of their leaders and towns are Celtic.

Other alternative names are Région Flandre ( s )- Artois, Hauts-de-France, (' Upper France ') and Picardie-du-Nord (' Northern Picardy ').

However with no big names playing in the Second Division, they turned down the offer and remained in the Northern League, stating " gates would not meet the heavy expenses incurred for travelling ".

The name Army of Northern Virginia referred to its primary area of operation, as did most Confederate States Army names at the time.

Sometime before 1969 Tolkien wrote the essay Of Dwarves and Men, in which detailed consideration was given to the Dwarves ' use of language, that the names given in the stories were of Northern Mannish origin, and Khuzdûl being their own secret tongue and the naming of the Seven Houses of the Dwarves.

The six finalist team names for the new NHL franchise were Blue Ox, Freeze, Northern Lights, Voyageurs, White Bears, and Wild were announced on November 20, 1997 .< ref >

Historical Chinese names include Zhang Hai () used in records from the Han Dynasty, and Fei Hai () used during the Southern and Northern Dynasties period.

Like all religions, Odinani is the vehicle used by its practitioners to understand their World ( called " Uwa "), or more specifically, the part of the World that affects them — which is to say the dry Land on which the Igbo live and gather sustenance — and it is from this that the belief acquires its names: " Ọ di " () + n '( na-) + " Ani " ( or the Earth goddess ) in the Northern Igbo dialects and also " O me " () + n '( na-) + " Ala " ( or the physical manifestation of the Earth goddess as dry land ) as used primarily in the Southern Igbo dialects.

The Northern Isles were part of Norway until the 15th century, and retain many Norse names.

When the Great Northern Railway depot was moved three miles south, keeping that name, for a period Duquette was called Old Kerrick, the new site being called New Kerrick ; the names were corrected when the Duquette post office was established in 1905.

Marion was located at the end of a Northern Pacific branch line starting in Casselton and known as the " lady line " due to the many cities bearing female names located alongside the tracks.

The village's New England heritage is most evident in its architecture, the names of local families, and the presence of a village green ( a common characteristic of many cities and towns in Northern Ohio ).

The name for the town was derived from the last names of the first postmistress, Belle Sutton, daughter of a local settler, and her new husband John Hackett, a Northern Pacific Railway agent from Twin Falls, Idaho.

In Northern England, particularly Yorkshire, names record significant Scandinavian influence.

* Place names in Irish for toponymy of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

The bay's Vietnamese and Chinese names – Vịnh Bắc Bộ and Běibù Wān, respectively – both mean " Northern Bay ".

* The city of Derry City in Northern Ireland is sometimes referred to as " Stroke City " due to it having two working names, i. e. Derry with or without the London prefix.